Yet now and then some leader would rise among them and gather them into bands which waxed bold to harry cattle and even houses, so that there might be truth in what the swineherd told.
Then one day a guard from the gate brought me a folded paper, on which my name was written in a fair hand, saying that it had been left for me by a swineherd from the hill, who said that it was from some mass priest whom I knew.
The Dame's flock and the flock of the swineherd burst at one and the same moment into the water-meadows, and Jan was soon in conversation with the latter.
Indeed, a curious attachment grew up between the little swineherd and his flock, some of whom would come at his call, when he rewarded their affection, as he had gained it, by scratching their backs with a rough stick.
The swineherd and his wife did not like him at all; in fact, they disliked him because he was so much prettier and so much brighter than their own clumsy children.
Fairyfoot went towards the hut, driving the swine before him, and suddenly he saw the swineherd come out of his house, and stand staring stupidly at the pigs.
They gave the swineherd some money, and some clothes for Fairyfoot, and told him, that if he would take care of the child, they would send money and clothes every year.
They sent him to the hut of a swineherd who lived deep, deep in a great forest which seemed to end nowhere.
As soon as he was big enough, the swineherd made him go out into the forest every day to take care of the swine.
The swineherd went lumbering back into the hut, and called his wife.
I could pick you out as goodly a herd from the court of England as ever trooped through the shades of Sherwood, or were driven out by the piping swineherd to eat acorns in the lanes by Southwell.
I met a swineherd at one time, and then a ploughman with two potters bringing along clay in a cart, but no other persons whatsoever.
The man rudely said that he understood not a word that was said, and that whether Peter or Paul or the Wilsdruf shepherd had the horses before the swineherd of Hainichen--it was just the same to him--provided they were not stolen.
At the moment when Pluto carried off Persephone, a swineherd called Eubuleus chanced to be herding his swine on the spot, and his herd was engulfed in the chasm down which Pluto vanished with Persephone.
A consciousness of the intimate connexion of the pig with the corn lurks in the legend that the swineherd Eubuleus was a brother of Triptolemus, to whom Demeter first imparted the secret of the corn.
Both princess and swineherd were thrust out of the city, and the princess stood and wept, while the swineherd scolded, and the rain poured down.
So the swineherd got ten kisses, and the princess got the saucepan.
Thou couldst not prize the rose and the nightingale, but thou wast ready to kiss the swineherd for the sake of a trumpery plaything.
That swineherd must certainly have been well educated.
The swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown from his face, threw off his dirty clothing, and stepped forth in his princely robes.
Unluckily the chief swineherd had an ugly old daughter, and whilst the Prince was away he dressed her up in fine clothes, and threw Ilonka into the well.
At sundown the swineherd left the palace to return to his hut.
The nobleswineherd answered: "Be silent, aged man, for we have ceased to believe the tales told us by wanderers.
He wanted to stay with the swineherd until his son should return, and he had had the opportunity of making the best plan for ridding his house of the suitors.
He called the swineherdto him, and said: "Eumaios, I am going back to the town to see my mother.
Then she gave him a staff and a tattered sack and sent him to his loyal swineherd while she took her way to Sparta.
In the meantime Odysseus went to the swineherd and the master of the herds, who had displayed such loyalty.
So he told the swineherd a long string of stories.
He told the tale so well that the swineherd believed him, and even killed a fat hog in his honor.
In the meanwhile the swineherd took up the bow and undertook to carry it to Odysseus.
The swineherd took the queen's message to the stranger, but he begged that he might not comply with the request until the suitors had left the house.
He repeats the story of the swineherd Eubuleus, whose pigs were swallowed up by the earth when it opened to receive Hades and Persephone.
It is to Zeus Cronion that the swineherd chiefly prays,**** but he does not exclude the others from his supplication.
In Eumaeus the swineherd of Odysseus, a man of noble birth stolen into slavery when a child, Homer has left a picture of true religion and undefiled.
Then he drove the goats onwards to the house of Odysseus, and Eumaius and the beggar followed him, and as they communed by the way, the swineherd bade him go first into the house, lest any finding him without might jeer or hurt him.
His glistening raiment turned to noisome rags, as Athene put a beggar's wallet on his shoulder and placed a walking staff in his hand, and showed him the path which led to the house of the swineherd Eumaius.
Glad indeed was theswineherd to see him, for he had not thought to look upon his face again.
Neither swineherd nor shepherd nor forester had dared to pass the tree from that hour.
Soon Telemachus sent the swineherd to tell Penelope of his safe return, and while he was gone Athene entered the hut.
But the swineherd answered: "Each vagrant who comes straying to the land of Ithaca goes to my mistress with lying tales of how he has seen or heard of my master.
At an open space on the hill, from whence he could look down at the woods and the sea, Odysseus found the swineherd sitting at the door of his hut making himself a pair of sandals out of brown ox-hide.
Go now," said Athene, "to where thy faithful swineherd sits on the hill, watching his swine as they grub among the acorns and drink of the clear spring.
Odysseus and the swineherd had kindled a fire, and were preparing the morning meal, when Odysseus heard the noise of footsteps.
At night the swineherd made a feast of the best that he had, and still they talked, almost until dawn.
At this moment it happened that a swineherd in a field near at hand sounded his horn to bring his herd of pigs home to be fed.
While Odysseus ate and drank, the swineherd talked to him of the greed and wastefulness of the wooers, and in silence Odysseus listened, planning in his heart how he might punish them.
These the swineherd tended, with three men and four fierce dogs to help him.
Beside them fought the swineherd and one other man, and they all fought the more fearlessly because, all the time, Athene put fresh courage in their hearts.
Soon Odysseus and the swineherd followed him to the city.
Then Athene flew across the sea, and Odysseus climbed up a rough track through the woods to where the swineherd had built himself a hut.
The swineherd looked, and when he saw his young master he wept for joy.
While the dog recognized him at once and the swineherd was overjoyed, she, the wife, held him aloof, fearing that he might be some man who had come to cheat her!
The trade and callings of an English serf were as limited as his other opportunities in life; and others beside the swineherd found it in the adjacent woodlands.
There is a shepherd and a swineherd who hold 8 acres.
Six loaves to the swineherd of the manor, when he takes the flock to pasture.
Lastly, surrounding the whole on the land side were the woods where the swineherd found mast for the 200 pigs of the place.
The swineherd and the cattleherd joined him, and all three put armour upon them.
Within the house were Telemachus, and Eumæus the swineherd and Philœtius the cattleherd.
Straightway he drew the rags from, the scar, and the swineherd and the cattleherd saw it and marked it well.
But neither the swineherd nor Telemachus was aware of Odysseus' gaze.
Later in the day the swineherd will lead me into the city, and I shall go into the house in the likeness of an old beggar.
Odysseus lay down, and the swineherd covered him with a mantle he kept for a covering when great storms should arise.
He laid a hand on each and said, 'Swineherd and cattleherd, I have a word to say to you.
While he was kissing and weeping over him, Odysseus heard theswineherd saying: 'Telemachus, art thou come back to us?
Odysseus, in the guise of a beggar, had a ragged bag across his shoulders and he carried a staff that the swineherd had given him to help him over the slippery ground.
While they were eating, the swineherd said: 'We have here a stranger who has wandered through many countries, and who has come to my house as a suppliant.
IX On the morning of his fourth day in Ithaka, as he and the swineherd were eating a meal together, Odysseus heard the sound of footsteps approaching the hut.
The swineherd led the seeming beggar into the courtyard, and he let him sit down on a heap of brushwood, and spread for him a shaggy goat-skin.
One was theswineherd Eumaeus and the other a wandering beggar man.
He might have fared badly, for the great beasts were lean and evil-tempered, had not the swineherd ran out to his help and drew them off with curses.
Well, my host, we shall see in the future," said Ulysses, in so significant a tone that the swineherd was startled for a moment.
At breakfast-time, while the swineherd was preparing the meal, the dogs began to bark loudly outside, but in a welcome manner, saluting one whom they knew.
As he finished speaking, once more the manhood of Ulysses left him and only a poor old beggar man stood before the swineherd and the prince.
Night and day since Lavarcam and the swineherd had told him of Darthool he had dreamed of the beautiful daughter of Felim the Harper.
They stood still, as they saw the swineherd and the two hillmen rise from near the well, and move slowly across the glade.
At that the swineherd could no longer hold to his bond.
Mayhap one of these men who were with the swineherd has been told to follow me secretly wheresoever I go.
Dost thou remember theswineherd to whom thou gavest word privily?
Darthool smiled into the man’s eyes, and what was only the swineherd died, and a strong heroic soul arose in him.
But the holy youth, heartily embracing in his soul the judgments of the Lord, made of his necessity a virtue, and, having in his office of a swineherd obtained solitude, worked out his own salvation.
